San Francisco Cops Said It Was Legal To Murder Black Man Because He Was An ‘Animal’

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4. I'd bet anything this piece of shit doesn't live in the city that employs him

He is able to go home to his lily white suburb every night and bitch about the "animals" who in essence, pay his bloated salary.

It used to be a requirement that most public employees live within the boundaries of the jurisdiction they worked for. That was especially true in the case of emergency or public safety employees like firemen, police officers, and even garbage collectors and water workers. This was felt to be important due to response time. Of course, somebody sued over it, and gradually the requirement disappeared. In an expensive city like SF, the majority of cops live outside the city limits, some an hours commute away. They have no stake in what does on there, as long as there's enough money in the budget to pay their salaries.

I suspect this is also true in a less affluent place like Ferguson, where the cops probably feel it's beneath them to live among the people they "protect and serve".

IMO, a good case could be made for re-instituting the requirement that cops reside in the city that they work for.